2024 Peace & Justice Youth Conference Reel

On Saturday, May 4th, 2024, The Circle Keepers produced The 2024 Peace & Justice Youth Conference in In Brooklyn, at Boerum Hill School for International Studies; BHS!
It was a joyful day of community building games, youth-led social justice workshop presentations, artistic performances and youth participatory action research YPAR based on our themes of “peace, justice, safety & belonging”. *Educators are welcome! There will be activities for educators facilitated by educators!
We featured over 20 youth-led workshops by Girls For Gender Equity (GGE), Student & Educators for Equity, The Ya-Ya Network, Youth Power Coalition, H.O.L.L.A., EJ-ROC, Malikah, ArtsConnection, Arte and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), IntegrateNYC, Bronx Academy for Software Engineering (BASE) High School, The Circle Keepers & Restorative Justice Initiative
Artivist keynote performances by viBe! Theater Experience, NYC Youth Poet Laureate Stephanie Pacheco, Brooklyn Tech's Step team, NYC Public School music bands, and others!
Peace & Justice policy Roundtable moderated by The Circle Keepers, and featuring youth leaders from IntegrateNYC, The Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Chief Equity Officer from NYC Comptroller's office Sadye Campoamor, Alliance For Quality Education (AQE) co-director Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, NYC Parent/community organizer and The Circle Keepers' director of care and community Tajh Sutton, long-term parent/education advocate and PEP member Tazin Azad & others.
This conference was produced in partnership with the love, care & support of NYC Service, Brownsville Community Justice Center, District 39 Council Member Shahana Hanif, The Ya-Ya Network, and Boerum Hill School for International Studies.
We are forever grateful for their solidarity and for going above & beyond to provide labor and economic support to see this dream come through, in our shared pursuit of leaving the world better than we found it!
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